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Consumers' response to price increases : evidence from gasoline markets

Tsanko, Ilona - 2024

Understanding how consumers respond to price increases is key when designing price-related policies. Using microdata on vehicle usage and paid fuel prices, I analyze consumers' response, focusing on three channels of mitigation: distance driven, fuel efficiency, and search. On average, consumers...

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Formative experiences and the price of gasoline

Severen, Christopher; Benthem, Arthur A. van - 2019

An individual’s initial experiences with a common good, such as gasoline, can shape their behavior for decades. We first show that the 1979 oil crisis had a persistent negative effect on the likelihood that individuals that came of driving age during this time drove to work in the year 2000...

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Formative experiences and the price of gasoline

Severen, Christopher; Benthem, Arthur A. van - 2019

An individual's initial experiences with a common good, such as gasoline, can shape their behavior for decades. We first show that the 1979 oil crisis had a persistent negative effect on the likelihood that individuals that came of driving age during this time drove to work in the year 2000...

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Alcohol prohibition and pricing at the pump

Fischer, Kai - 2022

Firms often sell a transparent base product and a valuable add-on product. If only some consumers are aware of the latter, the add-on's effect on the base product's price will be ambiguous. Cross-subsidization between products to bait uninformed consumers might lower, intrinsic utility from the...

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Evidence of a Shift in the Short-Run Price Elasticity of Gasoline Demand

Hughes, Jonathan E. - 2006

Understanding the sensitivity of gasoline demand to changes in prices and income has important implications for policies related to climate change, optimal taxation and national security, to name only a few. While the short-run price and income elasticities of gasoline demand in the United...

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How Effective are Policies to Reduce Gasoline Consumption? Evaluating a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Spain

Asensio, Javier; Gomez-Lobo, Andres; Matas, Anna - 2013

Using a panel of 48 provinces for four years we empirically analyze a series of temporary policies aimed at curbing fuel consumption implemented in Spain between March and June 2011. The first policy was a reduction in the speed limit in highways. The second policy was an increase in the biofuel...

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Gasoline Prices, Traffic Congestion, and Carbon Emissions

Pang, Jindong; An, Lan; Shen, Shulin - 2022

This paper explores the effect of gasoline prices on traffic congestion and carbon emissions. The international crude … percent increase in gasoline prices significantly decreases traffic congestion in rush hours by 4.9 percent. In addition to … offer guidance for gasoline pricing policies, gasoline taxes, traffic congestion, and the Dual-Carbon Target …

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Identifying the elasticity of driving : evidence from a gasoline price shock in California

Gillingham, Kenneth - In: Regional science & urban economics 47 (2014), pp. 13-24

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The energy implications of city size and density

Larson, William; Yezer, Anthony M. J. - In: Journal of urban economics 90 (2015), pp. 35-49

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Should California Include Motor Vehicle Fuels in a Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program?

Friedman, Lee S. - 2015

This paper considers whether the California Air Resources Board, in implementing regulations to achieve the greenhouse gas reduction goals of the AB32 legislation, should include motor vehicle fuels as part of a cap-and-trade program. Its conclusion is that it is of importance to do so. While...

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